Heritage management

• The ‘Collections Demography’ research project was one of the first to bring together value assessment processes with modelling of degradation.  
• The Deep Cities (Curating Urban Transformation through Heritage) research project deploys participatory methods in understanding the complex and dynamic values attached by diverse communities in dynamically evolving urban areas.
• Patra Rungsiroj, PhD Researcher at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, has developed a novel mixed method for capturing the unspoken and hidden heritage values of local communities using the example of Chiang Mai in Thailand. 
• Diana Rahman, PhD Researcher at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage,  has deployed ethnographic research in unpacking the complex values attached by local farmers in the case of the cultural landscape of Bali Province inscribed to the World Heritage List. 

• The forthcoming book ‘Heritage Dynamics’ by Kalliopi Fouseki showcases the dynamic complexity of various forms of heritage practices including ‘tangible’ and ‘intangible’ heritage. 
• The ‘Deep Cities’ project draws on dynamic modelling methods in order to establish the ways in which participatory urban heritage contributes to sustainable urban futures. The project is based on initial experimental research including Fouseki, K. and Nicolau, M., 2018. Urban heritage dynamics in ‘heritage-led regeneration’: Towards a sustainable lifestyles approach. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 9(3-4), pp.229-248 and Fouseki, K., Guttormsen, T.S. and Swensen, G. eds., 2019. Heritage and sustainable urban transformations: Deep cities. Routledge.
• The complex and dynamic interconnections between the materiality of heritage, values and behaviours and perceptions of users of heritage has been explored in greater depth in Fouseki, K., Newton, D., Murillo Camacho, K.S., Nandi, S. and Koukou, T., 2020. Energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and heritage conservation in residential historic buildings as dynamic and systemic socio-cultural practices. Atmosphere, 11(6), p.604.
• Merve Karabayeser, PhD Researcher at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, is continuing this  research in the context of Ottoman architecture 
• Krisangella Sofía Murillo Camacho, PhD Researcher at our SEAHA Centre for Doctoral Training, is also continuing this with their research on User-driven Energy Efficiency in Heritage Buildings in Mexico.

At UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage number of PhD projects have examined the complexity of participation as a process and its reciprocal impacts on heritage institutions, heritage professionals and ‘communities’ using interdisciplinary methods that draw on various disciplines such as behavioural economics, sociology, environmental psychology to name just a few. These include:

• Elia Quinano’s PhD research is looking at the social impacts of participatory heritage conservation in Yucatan, Mexico. Elia has developed a novel and sophisticated framework of indicators for evaluating the impacts of participatory heritage conservation (See Quiñones, E.Q. and Fouseki, K., Heritage conservation as a social process: Assessing social impacts of participatory cultural heritage conservation. In Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage (pp. 138-153). Routledge). 
• Eirini’s Gallou’s PhD research has focused on the exploration of the reciprocal impacts of participatory heritage on the participants and the heritage itself (including heritage institutions as well as the heritage sites). Her work focused on Orkney islands where a diverse array of participatory projects took place (See, for instance, Gallou, Eirini, and Kalliopi Fouseki. "Applying social impact assessment (SIA) principles in assessing contribution of cultural heritage to social sustainability in rural landscapes." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (2019). 
• Mina Dragouni’s PhD research drew on behaviour economics in order to develop a novel participatory model for unpacking the willingness of communities to participate as well as the type of participation they aspire. Her study focused on the area of Kastoria, northern Greece, an area rich in cultural and natural heritage (Dragouni, M. and Fouseki, K., 2018. Drivers of community participation in heritage tourism planning: An empirical investigation. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 13(3), pp.237-256).  

We also have had research projects in the area of participatory heritage including:

• The 'Counter mapping diaspora and queer communities’ living heritage in Sheffield' project funded through the Critical Heritage Studies Centre illuminates the powerful role of creative practices and arts in inclusive participation. Issues of inclusion and diversity are also tackled by the “Critical Heritage Studies and Social Justice” also funded by the Critical Heritage Studies Centre. 

• The Deep Cities project (Curating Urban Transformations Through Heritage) is one of the most recent projects exploring the complex and dynamic process of urban transformation through heritage and its impact on social sustainable development. 
• The Activating Abandoned Heritage in the Medina of Tunis (ACTIVAH) project also looks at the transformative role of heritage in the adaptive reuse of historic buildings through bottom-up, community-based approaches 
• Eight PhD projects have been looking at the transformative process of historic urban landscapes in Thailand (Patra Runngsiroj), Kosovo (Lorika Hisari), Shanghai (Kaixuan Wang), Mexico (Krisangella Murillo Camacho), Turkey (Merve Karabayeser), Egypt (Amr Elhusseiny) and Taipei (Tuchung Liu). 

• The ENHERIT project aims to address this question on a neighbourhood scale at historic areas in Stockholm, Sweden. 
• The complex and dynamic interconnections between the materiality of heritage, values and behaviours and perceptions of users of heritage has been explored in greater depth in Fouseki, K., Newton, D., Murillo Camacho, K.S., Nandi, S. and Koukou, T., 2020. Energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and heritage conservation in residential historic buildings as dynamic and systemic socio-cultural practices. Atmosphere, 11(6), p.604. This international study looks at the dynamic interconnections of heritage values and decision-making on energy efficiency, thermal comfort and heritage conservation in Greece, Mexico, Finland and the UK. This global work is now continued by Merve’s Karabayeser research in the context of Ottoman architecture and Sofia’s Krisangella Murillo Camacho work in Mexico. 
• The Holistic low-carbon retrofit of historic buildings: how to assess whole-house retrofit strategies project aims to explore the whole-house retrofit approach by bringing together engineering and social sciences. 

• The Heritage, Enviornmental Risk and Data Analytics Group (HERADA) Research Group is an team focused on assessing environmental risks for heritage, with an emphasis on sustainable management.
• A group of researchers at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage have endeavoured to propose methods of risk assessment that incorporate heritage values (i.e. Curran, K., Bao, J., Oakley, H., Gili, A. and Fouseki, K., 2022. 3 Combining theory and practice. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage, p.44). 
• A particular emphasis has been placed on decolonizing climate change-heritage research 
• We also work on participatory research that involves communities in recovering from natural disasters, for example Twigg, J., Lovell, E., Schofield, H., Miranda Morel, L., Flinn, B., Sargeant, S., . . . D'Ayala, D. (2017). Self-recovery from disasters: an interdisciplinary perspective (ODI Working Paper. Shaping policy for development and Kumar, P. (2020). Crowdsourcing to rescue cultural heritage during disasters: A case study of the 1966 Florence Flood. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 43, 101371. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101371). London: Overseas Development Institute) or war disasters (e.g. Hisari, L. and Fouseki, K., 2020. Post-war cultural heritage preservation in Kosovo: Rethinking the implementation of ahtisaari plan annex v. Heritage, 3(1), pp.98-115.